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The fluidity of race
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The fluidity of race
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racializations of the American mestizos in the Philippines and the United States, 1900-1955
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Molnar
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Nicholas Trajano
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1983-
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Nicholas Molnar
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Yans
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Virginia
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Virginia Yans
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chair
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John W.
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internal member
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Matsuda
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Matt K.
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Matt K. Matsuda
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internal member
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Lopez
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Kathleen
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Kathleen Lopez
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Advisory Committee
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internal member
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Isaac
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Allan P.
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Allan P. Isaac
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outside member
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2012
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2012-05
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2012
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eng
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This study is an examination of the American mestizos who lived in the Philippines from 1900 to 1955. No scholarly studies exist that analyze and historicize this group, but this is understandable, as the population of the American mestizos compared to the overall Filipino population is miniscule, never exceeding 20,000 individuals at any one time. Despite their small numbers, the American mestizos were a matter of social concern for the Philippine state and the expatriate Americans and Filipino nationalists who resided there. Various actors in the Philippines carried their own imposed racializations of the group that changed over time, ranging from American expatriates who emphasized the group’s “American” blood to Filipino nationalists who embraced them as Filipinos. This study will demonstrate that the boundaries of race have been constantly shifting, with no single imposed or self-ascribed American mestizo identity coalescing. American mestizo racial definitions and constructs are historically and regionally specific, complicating conventional scholarly assumptions and requiring a historically grounded approach to the understanding of race and ethnicity. This study makes theoretical contributions to the study of race in the United States and its former colonies. Contemporary literature seeks to explain by what means racial identity is created and maintained. My study, however, seeks to explore racial formation from another angle, exploring why a distinct group identity never coalesced among the American mestizos despite the presence of similar economic, historical, and social forces that have clearly led to racial formation in other groups. The concept of the American mestizo and the fluid Philippine racial framework challenged static American notions of race. I argue that contact with the Philippines led to an assimilation of Filipino racial ideas among American expatriates, who in turn created their own colonialized concepts of race and nationality, demonstrating that under certain historical conditions, American concepts of race had room to bend. Tracking the transmittal of these hybridized ideas, and their transformations and various interpretations at each venue, allows us to gain insight into the malleability of Philippine and American notions of nation and race, and into the larger processes of racial construction overall.
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History
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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v, 221 p.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Nicholas Trajano Molnar
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Mestizos--Philippines--History--20th century
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Race
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Racism--Philippines--History--20th century
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Philippines--Race relations--History--20th century
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United States--Race relations--History--20th century
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Racism--United States--History--20th century
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000065222
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3FN154X
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Molnar
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Nicholas
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2012-04-15 00:15:54
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Nicholas Molnar
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2014-03-31
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2016-12-31
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after December 31, 2016.
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